More than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, led our nation through its greatest crisis, the Civil War. He helped end slavery and helped reunite our country. Before starting today's cyber tour of all things Lincoln, here's a bit of fun
David Davis, an Illinois judge and close friend of the Lincoln family, said this about Honest Abe: "From the humblest poverty, without education, or the means of attaining it; unaided by wealth or influential family connections, he rose, solely, by the st
"On the night of April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln who had been attending a play at Ford's Theater.
In 1863, David Wills, a Pennsylvania judge, was given the task of "cleaning up the horrible aftermath of the [Civil War] battle" at Gettysburg.
This single page illustrated time line of Lincoln's life begins in 1637 when Lincoln's ancestors arrived from England to settle in Hingham, Massachusetts.
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